The Biggest Magic: The Gathering Crashers and Climbers This Week - June 30

It’s hard to judge we’re a mates of weeks into the Final Fantasy acceptable already, and yet it won’t beryllium agelong until Edge of Eternities arrives acknowledgment to Magic: The Gathering’s accelerated merchandise cadence.

In the meantime, determination person been much large paper terms changes, and galore of them revolve astir everyone’s favourite caller card, Vivi Ornitier.

Climbers: Let's Talk About Vivi Ornitier

Vivi has been a precise fashionable paper since his debut, and the diminutive spellcaster has made a large impression.

He’s dropped to conscionable nether $50 now, but he’s inactive seeing plentifulness of synergistic cards climbing.

One of those is Savor the Moment, which gives you a treble crook for conscionable 3 mana. That past powers up Vivi, too. Market terms is up to $9.10, implicit a 50% boost versus past month.

As we covered successful our caller synergies feature, Harmonic Prodigy gives treble Wizard triggers – nice! That means it's gone up by 118.70% successful the past period (246.76% successful three) – not truthful nice!

That's bully for those that ain the card, not truthful bully for those who are looking to prime it up standalone. Still, marketplace is inactive conscionable $12.75 close now, truthful it could beryllium a lot worse.

Moving distant from Vivi, Tifa’s getting immoderate emotion from Bristly Bill, Spine Sower. This Outlaws of Thunder Junction paper tin assistance powerfulness up our martial creator heroine, but astatine a outgo of astir $40 now.

Another nifty synergy that's climbing is Perch Protection. This Instant has climbed from a dollar to astir $6, since it handily ties into Chocobo decks.

Crashers: Doctor Whom?

As we besides covered successful our synergies feature, Doctor Who's Barbara Wright is simply a large companion (in and retired of the TARDIS) for summon-focused Final Fantasy decks, and she’s dropping ever so slightly.

She’s conscionable present astatine $3.80, down from a $4.44 precocious a week backmost (albeit inactive massively up versus 3-months ago... 2135.29%!)

Final Fantasy’s Golbez, Crystal Collector has dropped to good nether $3 now, arsenic has Aerith, Last Ancient, who was $15 conscionable a abbreviated portion ago.

Kefka, Court Mage has seen a large driblet since pre-release, but keeps climbing and dropping ever-so-slightly since. It’s conscionable $4 close now.

Climbers Again? A Surge [Foil] successful Price

Surge Foils, which look successful different MTG Universes Beyond sets similar Fallout and Warhammer 40K, are a unsocial benignant of foiling that is importantly prettier than their regular foil counterparts.

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER, presently has a $718.89 marketplace price. Yes, you work that correctly. He has highly almighty abilities, and is present a game-changer successful Pioneer Sacrifice decks.

The marketplace prices for immoderate of these are evidently a small spot insane, but I expect they'll spell down a spot erstwhile the hype dies down. Though, that could beryllium a while.

Back successful the aged days of Magic (like 10 years ago), azygous paper prices were based mostly connected their age, availability, and playability. For awhile, cards similar Jace, Vryn's Prodigy were $100+ utmost outliers owed to its powerfulness and prominence successful that Standard format.

Now, with Universes Beyond sets, casual Magic fans buying into the crippled to pursuit these gorgeous treatments person driven up prices. Jace is present sitting astir $4 since it's been a unfortunate of powerfulness creep, but I'm not definite these Final Fantasy Surge Foils volition travel the aforesaid trend.

MTG Sealed Sets

Everything other Final Fantasy is beauteous blistery close now, truthful if you negociate to find thing successful stock, it mightiness beryllium worthy picking up ASAP to debar disapointment.

Looking for much TCG treatment and marketplace watch? Check retired the afloat MTG merchandise docket for 2025, past week's MTG terms movers and shakers, or, connected the Pokemon broadside of things, our latest crashers and climbers for Pokemon TCG and the astir costly 151 cards going close present for Pokemon trainers.

Lloyd Coombes is Gaming Editor @ Daily Star. He's a large instrumentality of Magic: The Gathering and different collectible paper games, overmuch to his wife's dismay. He's besides a tech, gaming, and fittingness freelancer seen astatine Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar, Tom’s Guide, IGN, and more.

Thanks to TCGPlayer, we’ve pulled unneurotic the biggest climbers and crashers for this week.

This nonfiction includes contributions from Robert Anderson and Myles Obenza.